High-Precision Numeric Vectors

bigfloat() and as_bigfloat() construct a vector designed to store numbers with 50 decimal digits of precision.

is_bigfloat() checks if an object is of class bignum_bigfloat.

bigfloat(x = character())

as_bigfloat(x)

is_bigfloat(x)

Arguments

x

Object to be coerced or tested.

Value

An S3 vector of class bignum_bigfloat.

See also

NA_bigfloat_ to represent missing values.

format() for pretty printing.

vignette("operations") for supported operations.

Examples

# default options limit displayed precision
bigfloat(1) / 3
#> <bigfloat[1]>
#> [1] 0.3333333

# display full precision
format(bigfloat(1) / 3, sigfig = 50, notation = "dec")
#> [1] "0.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333"